Paris crowd

After the first night i decided to video the crowd with me camera as i said good bye.
Now to go practice me french…

ahhh Paris

What can i say? These were two of the most amazing shows i ever i had played. The venue has to be seen to be believed. I would have visited just to see it, i felt so lucky to be invited by Aaron to come and play here. It is 17th century and is owned by the director Peter Brook.
I walked out with Mary B on cello to a full house on both nights and the response was just fucking awesome. 500 people and not a single whisper during the songs. I was made so welcome i couldn’t help smiling. I really can’t wait to get back here to play again. I had great craic trying to communicate during the show and afterwards talking to people with my atrocious french.
Someone sent me a link to these (half way down page)photos taken during the night.
If anyone else has photos i would love to see them.
After the show i watched Aaron play and they rocked the house. They also had the best shoes i have ever seen. They had everyone eating chips out of their knickers. All their crew and the band made us feel like one of the family and i hope we cross paths again. Thanks to all the people who came to the shows and listened to us, it was a pleasure to play.

Stop the deportation of Lordorice and Imelda Djountso

This is from a friend on the Declan de Barra forum, if you can please fax or email to help it would mean a lot. It will only take 2 minutes of your time.

Hi all,

I’m writing to ask any of you who read this to take a minute to protest the imminent deportation of a friend of mine back to her native Cameroon, where she was raped and her brothers killed. Lordorice Djountso is good friend and a good woman. Her daughter Imelda, who was born here, is as Irish as I am.
The Home Office rejected her claim for asylum on the grounds of credibility (Lordorice had not yet been diagnosed with PTSD, suffering from which means she shouldn’t be deported), that she would no longer be of interest to her attackers so long after the event (despite the fact they persued and attacked her husband back home, who has since disappeared) and that Cameroon is suitably equipped to protect her should a sitation arise (despite its consistently poor track record in fighting societal violence against women).
Lordorice is terrified for her and her daughter’s safety. The local community feels the loss of a bright, friendly, honest woman who was always ready to offer her help to a worthy cause, and a beautiful baby with about the biggest eyes and chubbiest lickle legs I’ve ever seen.

Please help protect my friend from the risk of sexual violence and persecution in Cameroon.

We’re asking people to send a fax to Liam Byrne MP, at Fax: 0207 035 4745 (from outside the UK + 44 20 7035 4745), a model of which can be downloaded here:
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine82/lodorice.html with more info on her case. If you don’t have access to a fax machine you can email me at somethingmustgrow@hotmail.com to have your name added to the faxes we’re sending out. And if you can think of anyone sympathetic, or you have a website/blog/myspacey type thing please consider posting the info for your friends to see.

Things are going really well so far but we need to keep up the momentum.

Thanks
Caítlin

Shell again

I posted on here before about shell and the Murder of Ken Saro Wiwa and cop violence against the shell to sea group in ireland. Here is a short doco made by Aljazeera on the Irish shell to sea protests. Where is Hugo Chavez when you need him? I’m looking forward to casting my vote inthe election in a few weeks…

Australians all let us rejoice for we are young and free?

Change the fucking anthem, change the fucking flag, say fucking sorry.

As i read the info below i feel like roaring and smashing items in my flat.
I’m not having a good week.

Western Australian Attorney-General Jim McGinty says the
Government has failed to cut Indigenous detention rates and it has become
almost a rite of passage for young Aborigines to spend time in jail.

New figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
show WA’s rate of juvenile detention is around twice the national
average, with only the Northern Territory recording higher figures.
Mr McGinty says about 80 per cent of children in detention are
Aboriginal, despite Indigenous people making up just 3 per cent of
the population.

Tattoo

I meant to post this earlier, David from Canada had this tattooed on his stomach from the artwork i did for the album. Steve Cole of sacred heart tattoo in Vancouver, bc did a great job.